Teledermatology: Just Cool or a Real Tool?

@article{Burg2005TeledermatologyJC,
  title={Teledermatology: Just Cool or a Real Tool?},
  author={Günter Burg and Urs Hasse and Claudio Cipolat and Roger Kropf and Vahid Djamei and H. Peter Soyer and Sergio Chimenti},
  journal={Dermatology},
  year={2005},
  volume={210},
  pages={169 - 173}
}
Telemedicine is the practice of healthcare using interactive audio, visual and data communication. This includes healthcare delivery, diagnoses, consultation and treatment as well as education and transfer of medical data. The transmission of multimedia streams has remained a major challenge. Although the Internet remains basically insecure, technology allows today to define and implement complete security profiles for specific (medical) communities. Data security is a must as in all other… 
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Teledermatology and its Current Perspective

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Basic concepts, the integration of noninvasive imaging technique images, artificial intelligence, and the current ethical and legal issues are reviewed.

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It seems that teledermatology might be the answer to numerous issues concerning diagnosing, screening and managing cancers as well as pigmented skin lesions.

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This work is the first study performing mobile teledermoscopy using cellular phones in pigmented skin lesions, and has the potential to become an easy applicable tool for everyone and a new approach for enhanced self-monitoring for skin cancer screening in the spirit of the eHealth program of the European Commission Information for Society and Media.

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The aim of the research was to determine the degree of diagnostic accuracy and diagnostic agreement of the diagnoses that were determined by real-time examination and diagnosis that have been set by teledermatology method in various consultative centers.

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